François Boucher, Allegory of Music, Painting, 1764, NGA 32680

How Musical Notes Do Re Mi…Was Created, a Curiosity

Regia Marinho
3 min readJul 13, 2021

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In music… a note is a symbol denoting a musical sound. It was created a long time ago.

“Without music, life would be a mistake” ― Friedrich Nietzsche.

Will Musical Notes Ever Rule the World? Maybe.

Music is the art of arranging sounds in time to produce a composition with the elements of melody, rhythm, harmony, and timbre.

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” ― Plato

It is one of the universal cultural aspects of all human societies.

A, ou La

Note, A or La

Notes can represent the pitch and duration of a sound in musical notation.

Guido of Arezzo

The first western system of functional names for the musical notes was introduced by the Italian Guido of Arezzo. C. 991 — after 1033.

He used the beginning syllables of the first six…

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Regia Marinho

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